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foreign [Music] we wanted to be able to have this happy family like everybody else does
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my name is Arden Summers and I am the daughter of Elisa and Trevor Summers I was really hoping that my family would
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be back together and healthy and fixed Elisa Summer she is a loving mother of five children
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it's a tragic family story and they're breaking up and getting divorced Trevor Summers wanted control
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he controlled Elisa and he controlled his children we later learned through our investigation that Trevor summer is
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using his children to play against his wife he was trying to persuade her not to get
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divorced and he was going to talk her into it no matter how long it took she went through hell and back all
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because of what my dad did when Trevor Summers enters the home and Elisa Summers ultimately wakes up that's
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when the violence occurs I am here with Elisa at her house or I'm not supposed to be and I woke
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Elise up and I have been holding her against her will be used her cell phone to record a video
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making a statement about what occurred I did Tire up uh I keep her from contacting authorities and giving
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me enough time to get out of town eventually he takes her out of the house correct Alisa agrees to go with him
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because she knew that was the only way she was going to be able to stay alive at that point
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in the Walgreens he's in the car and there is an employee at the Walgreens taking a smoke break
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we received a 911 call from a witness at the Walgreens where Miss Summers attempted to flee from the vehicle some
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[ __ ] just ran out of the dude's car looked like her hands were tired and she ran out of the car script and help me
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I just uh grabbed her and put her back in my car so this is a potential kidnapping but could be headed towards
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something far more serious a potential homicide that's certainly a possibility and something that's in the back of our
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heads the 911 call occurs approximately 9 pm on Saturday then the following morning myself and
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another detective are able to interview four of the five children it was just a knock on the door
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and just two tall men and asked do you know where your parents are and I said no
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they were talking about how they're doing this investigation to try to find my parents and all I'm thinking is oh my
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God what happened the interview with the children it was a very delicate situation
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you know he was hurting mom did he tie our arms up or her feet or something else
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because [Music] when the children are giving these details it's just surreal it was
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shocking [Music] thank you foreign [Music] [Music] thank you this is the bedroom window that Trevor
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Summers was allowed into the home through Sergeant Christopher Steele with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office
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and who opened that window for him his eldest daughter would have been in the home unlocking and making it ready for
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him to enter my dad had sat me down and discussed reconciling with my mom and fixing the marriage and bringing our
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family back together Arden Summers was eager to help her father make her family whole again her parents Alisa and Trevor
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Summers had separated after 15 years of marriage and there was a restraining order keeping them apart
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Arden and her four siblings had been living with their dad he wanted me my younger siblings to go over to my mom's
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house and spend the night and then I would let my dad in the window after my siblings and my mom went to bed Arden
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thought her dad could then talk her mom into getting back together but Trevor Summers supposed attempt at
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reconciliation was actually an act of manipulation using his children as Pawns in a plot involving kidnapping assault
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and attempted murder that would go on for 55 hours the clock it was digital clock and it
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said exactly 3 A.M I was startled awake Alisa Mathewson formerly Elisa Summers will never forget the disorienting fear
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that began in the early morning hours of March 11 2017. she was awakened in her pitch black bedroom two of her children
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were lying beside her seven-year-old Brynn and five-year-old Grady and I felt my face was wet and I started screaming
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who's in my room what are you doing here I'm in a panic an absolute Panic her estranged husband Trevor had entered her
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home in Valrico Florida trip dripping water on her head and was standing over her and I'm still screaming and he says
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calm down it's just me I just start in full Panic throwing things from my end table at him and he grabbed my ankles
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and pulled me off the end of the bed this must be terrifying it's terrifying brain and Grady are running out of my
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room screaming daddy daddy don't kill mommy but how did it come to this the couple first met in 1995 in high
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school in Suburban Philadelphia and started dating three years later he was spontaneous and charming and just seemed
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that he always put me first the couple married in 2001 eager to begin their life together he wanted to start a
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family right away when I had Arden it was everything I envisioned for my life I envisioned myself being a stay-at-home
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mom and then over the years it was Arden times five five kids right yes after Arden came Landon Brynn Grady and Cooper
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the more kids it seemed that the more love the more happiness I wanted to have this picture-perfect life Alisa says
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Trevor initially started a landscape and pool design company and he dabbled in real estate but he really fancied
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himself as an entrepreneur he would open up businesses is for a little while and
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then he would move on to a new business the family moved several times says Elisa as Trevor chased opportunities
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from Pennsylvania to Florida to Vegas to California and eventually back to the Sunshine State where the children were
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homeschooled we would very often host people have sleepovers friends over birthday parties all kinds of stuff
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Arden now 20 remembers good times we would go to the beach we had a beach fairly close to our house play video
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games as a family and board games stuff like that Arden says while she was close
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to her mother she had a special bond with her father I was definitely the definition of a daddy's girl we would go
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out on little dates together go out for dinners just him and I meanwhile Elisa says her relationship with Trevor was
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changing with each move and birth of another child she says her husband was slowly taking control of her life
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I had to wear what he would select I couldn't have men on my Facebook page she couldn't even sit next to a man in
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church or anywhere I couldn't ride in a car alone with a man I was to have no communication with any men other than
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Trevor Elisa was also overhearing Snippets of Trevor's business conversations there were some things
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that just weren't adding up Alisa says Trevor was frequently in financial trouble not paying debts and bouncing
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checks he was arrested several times but she says he always blamed his problems on others and the crisis would seem to
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pass every single time it would happen it would be a it's a misunderstanding he's having these incidents with with
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the law what are you thinking yeah at the same time I was walking on eggshells don't question him okay and not smile
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and Nod did he have a temper as long as we stayed in his good graces that it was
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fine in 2016 Alisa finally had enough and asked for a divorce Trevor begged her to stay wanting to keep the family
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together Elisa agreed but she says Trevor's possessive Behavior worsened he took my cell phone
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he took my car I was being held in my own home as like a prisoner it became very apparent that this is domestic
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violence this is domestic abuse I need to start working on my plan he wanted to escape but Trevor Summers
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had his own plans for Elisa [Music] [Music] I had been just stuck staying in the
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house with him watching me by October 2016 Alisa says she felt like an inmate in her own home with her
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husband Trevor monitoring her every move he was always with me for several weeks
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until one day Trevor finally left to go to work that's when Elisa called a domestic violence organization and I
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said you know these are the things that are going on my husband hasn't gone to work in weeks this is the first time
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I've been alone and the more and more I asked them and I talked to them about this they said your situation is very
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serious but before Alisa could get out of the house that day Trevor burst through the
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door he came in and he attacked me and he every time I would try to get away from him he blocked me from leaving
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Elisa says that after some time Trevor reluctantly agreed to let her leave with the children and she sought refuge in
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the home of a friend he was going crazy over this and he uh he found out where I
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was and he would be showing up there after a week there she felt safer moving with her children to a shelter for
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Abused Women leaving everything behind we had nothing we had the clothes on our backs
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over the course of several months Elisa started rebuilding her life when I got out of the shelter I got
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myself a home and a car and a job as well she filed for divorce and even tried online dating but Trevor
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was not out of her life as they shared custody of the children I was forced to see him twice to a week to exchange
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children with him by January 2017 Alisa says Trevor seemed resigned to the fact their marriage was
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over and about a month later Alisa says she agreed to go by Trevor's home to sign the divorce papers so you're in the
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house what happens he said that he just needed to talk to me he was like I have to I have to get everything off of my
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chest so we can get divorced I have to tell you I've had multiple Affairs I've really messed up
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Trevor was also in serious legal trouble facing real prison time according to court records he was awaiting sentencing
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after pleading guilty to wire fraud charges for one of his failed business ventures his perfectly controlled life
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was quickly imploding as I was leaving and he said you're not going anywhere with one hand holding me down he abused
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the other hand and pulled a knife and held it right up at my chest by my throat how long was the blade it was a
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machete and he's got this machete right under right up my neck and he says I won't tie
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you up if you just stay still and listen to me and then he held me there for a few hours
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eventually Alisa says Trevor agreed to let her go after she calmed him down and promised not to call the police a
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promise she did not keep I immediately called 9-1-1 when I left his home but when investigators interviewed Trevor he
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denied threatening elise's life the police didn't believe me I wasn't left with any marks
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there was no evidence of what I was saying the Sheriff's Office treated it as a concern from the beginning
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Hillsborough County Sheriff Sergeant Christopher Steele was not involved in responding to the 9-1-1 call but says
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investigators were looking into the case it's not like we could have simply arrested him that day based on the
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statements of just the two that were involved we needed more both Elisa and Trevor filed for restraining orders
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against each other and Elisa says Trevor used the incident to turn their children
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against her he told the children I lied to the police she is trying to get me thrown in in prison he told them their
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mother was responsible for the marriage falling apart he would constantly talk about how she was supposedly cheating on
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him he you know acted so heartbroken what did you think of your mother I felt like she was awful
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then just two days later Alisa arrived home to find the place vandalized there was graffiti all over the walls there
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was Kool-Aid poured on my bed the Kool-Aid was his idea the chalk and writing on the walls was my idea what
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had you written on the walls I had written things like traitor I wrote thanks for being an ass right above the
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bed Alisa was incredulous when she learned Trevor had convinced Arden to take part
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it was devastating my kids had a key to my home and they used their key and did this
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a few weeks later Alisa got an unexpectedly cheery phone call from Arden and Arden says mom we really miss
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you I I just I'm sorry I've been thinking of you I want to come over and just you and
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I talk things through hang out like old times within days Arden Brynn and Grady were back visiting Elisa while Cooper
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and Landon were at Trevor's house I especially was feeling like Arden was starting to
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come around Alisa says she and Arden had no idea they both were being manipulated by
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Trevor he had mentioned before that he was really hoping to reconcile with her and to put the family back together and
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be almost like the savior of the family the goal was something Noble in a way that you were participating in that
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maybe they can get him back together and we can be a family again yes so on the evening of March 10 2017 as
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Elisa was in bed with Brynn and Grady Arden was in another room secretly texting her father just checked
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she's fast asleep letting him know the coast was clear for him to enter elise's home
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[Music] just after midnight on March 11 2017 Trevor Summers left his three-year-old
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son Cooper home alone asleep in bed and drove with twelve-year-old Landon to his estranged wife's house where Arden
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was already waiting he told me that he was going to talk to my mom following his instructions Arden
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had left this window open for Trevor they passed each other as she went out to wait in the car with Landon
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that's when Elisa says she remembers waking up to water dripping on her face at that point it's full on terror
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Elisa says Trevor dragged her to the living room Grady and Brynn the two young children who were in bed with her
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woke up and screamed he looks right at them and he says get back in your mother's room don't come out
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Alisa says they struggled as she tried to escape when I get my hand onto the door and he'd grab me and throw me
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backwards are you wondering where is Arden yes I'm thinking Arden's going to hear this Arden's going to call 9-1-1
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like where is she Arden was sitting in the car hopeful that her parents would come out after talking and they would
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all return to Trevor's house together but around 5 a.m Trevor sent a text that the plan had changed she walks in and
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doesn't even look at me and that's when I realized she's not going to call 9-1-1 she wants
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him to be there Arden says her dad told her to drive Landon Brynn and Grady back to his house
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and wait then 14 years old Arden's only Driving Experience had been in a parking lot
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it was very terrifying I was doing exactly the speed limit and I just followed all the traffic laws to not get
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pulled over once the children were out of the house that's when it even escalated further
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he threw me onto my bed and took these scarves and wrapped me my hands my wrists together he is tying me to the
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bed frame with the Christmas lights and crisscrossing them across my body to hold me down that's when Trevor told her
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why he was there I Came to Say Goodbye I am leaving I've chartered a boat I'm going out into International water and
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I'm going to disappear Elisa says he claimed he had millions of dollars in offshore bank accounts Alisa
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didn't believe any of it she says she had a plan stay quiet and perhaps he would let her go
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I don't want to infuriate this man just sitting back listening and letting him do the talking she says over the course
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of several hours Trevor raped her twice did he have any kind of a weapon on him he did
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a razor blade Alisa says she felt drowsy because Trevor made her take cold medicine he
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had been using NyQuil throughout the day to keep me sedated Alisa says Trevor tied her ankles and
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wrists behind her with the scarves and a nylon rope I was in excruciating pain he used her thumb to unlock her cell
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phone and recorded those videos I am here with Elisa at her house she's virtually unharmed
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she's got a couple bruises today but from the uh from Tiger rock Alisa says Trevor told her he was making
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the videos so she could prove to authorities he was there before taking the boat trip but Trevor didn't
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immediately leave it was around 5 40 p.m when he came back into the room he put a pillow over my face
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and he pushed down with all of his upper body and I thought about my kids and I and I lost consciousness
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moments later Alisa says she remembers the pillow being removed and he looked at me
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and I said please I'll do anything please don't kill me he says you agree to go with me yes I'll go
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with you to the boat to the islands yes Elisa says she still thought the boat story was a lie but agreed to go with
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him to buy time with her hands tied Elisa says Trevor loaded her into her SUV later he went into that Walgreens to buy
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more cold medicine it was the moment she'd been patiently waiting for I pulled the door handle to
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open the door and so I'm running and I'm stumbling through this parking lot and I
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could hear him coming at me and grab me did he lift you up to the ground and pushed me back got me all the way
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back into the car that's when that Walgreens employee called 9-1-1 trying to get the license
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it's a dark dark blue SUV he's falling out right now the employee managed to get that license
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plate number Hillsborough County sheriff's deputies realized it was elise's vehicle and began a Statewide
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search as they sped into the night Alisa says Trevor was irate he's screaming at me oh you agreed to go
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with me why are you doing this because from over here all the way across over to here
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he said that's for getting out of the car at the Walgreens [Music] Elisa says Trevor spent hours driving
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along back roads down the Tampa Bay Coast they stopped several times including at
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a secluded rural area where they head out for over a day here he wrote letters detailing what
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he'd done a confession and this chilling farewell to their children Elisa read an
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excerpt we should have never gone down the road of divorce that tore our family apart so
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we have ended it for your sake and will be watching you from heaven Elisa says Trevor raped her two more
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times I just need to stay alive I just need to stay alive on the morning of March 13th Trevor
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drove to Little Harbor a resort area where they used to go as a family Elisa says Trevor pulled the SUV over
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parked right behind a dumpster and climbed into the back seat and a rope came over my head
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and came around my neck is there any doubt in your mind what he's attempting to do at that moment no he is he is
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killing me behind a dumpster suddenly he's behind me and he let's go and he Dove through the car jumped into the
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driver's seat and took off Trevor believed he'd been spotted there's no talking he is laser focused
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and he is driving panicked he pulled into this carport he pulls out the razor blade and he starts slitting his throat
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I'm screaming at him to stop and at this point then the police come up around guns drawn screaming
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Elisa remembers an officer helping her he puts me right into the front seat and he gets in and he takes off goes down
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this road just takes off and boom boom you're out of here not fast suddenly I'm saved I've been pulled from
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hell [Music] following elise's rescue investigators took these photographs while still receiving medical attention
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Elisa told her story her hands were behind my back and he slipped my wrist and I just kept begging and begging
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please don't kill me please don't kill me Trevor Summers also spoke to investigators from his hospital bed
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where his wounds were stitched up law enforcement says it amounted to a confession what did you tie her up with
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just some rope some nylon rope all right let's grab the pillow and put it over her face but bizarrely Trevor also
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claimed Elisa voluntarily went along with him and she willingly let me tie her up
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Trevor was later charged with 11 counts including attempted murder kidnapping sexual battery and child neglect Trevor
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pleaded not guilty but elise's ordeal was far from over she she would come face to face with Trevor yet again at
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his trough [Music] learn more about elise's 55-hour ordeal at 48hours.com [Music]
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I'm not afraid of him anymore and I'm going to say this is what happened and this is what
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you did by 2022 five years had passed since Trevor Summer's arrest on charges including attempted murder kidnapping
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and sexual battery during that time the couple's divorce was finalized now after legal and covid
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related delays a jury would decide if Trevor's mission had been to kill Elisa or to reconcile with her
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there was no murderous intent it stopped otherwise she would would be dead Anthony Marchese Trevor Summers court
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appointed attorney says his client believes he did nothing illegal so in his mind he could see consent he would
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think that he could show everyone that no crime was committed even though she's tied up even though there's been alleged
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physical violence he still believed that the sex they had was consensual yes I mean in his mind
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if it's tying up or other things happened those were temporary then from there she would consent I've never had a
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client like Mr Summers he was always a gentleman always very polite and very intelligent but he doesn't understand
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the distinction between consent and acquiescence Marchese was the latest of seven
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different lawyers who had been on and off the case Trevor Summers plan was always to take Elisa and to harm her
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that night Jennifer Johnson and Jessica O'Connor prosecutors with the Hillsborough County
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state attorney's office built the case against Trevor Summers the strongest evidence that we have was the
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postmirinda statement grab the pillow and put her over her face the handwritten confession
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as well as the videotaped confession and it woke Elisa up and I have been holding
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her against her will those pieces of evidence would play a crucial role as Trevor Summers trial
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began in August 2022. Elisa Summers thought she was living out the last few days of her life
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she believed that the defendant Trevor Summers was going to kill her testimony from Mrs Summers will be that she was
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tied up that she had no alternative but there's some inconsistencies in this case in many ways rests on your
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shoulders your ability to deliver so as you take the stand what's going through your mind oh gosh what's going through
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my mind was just tell them what happened use the Christmas lights to tie me to the bed rails and use the vacuum cord to
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go underneath the mattress over the course of several hours the prosecution questioned Elisa regarding Trevor's
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actions being hog-tied the pain was so incredible he pushed down the pillow on my face the prosecutors anticipated
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the defense would question if Elisa was raped or consented to having sex so they
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raised it first with Elisa detailing the alleged assaults he started to remove my
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bottoms and proceeded to have sex with me did you tell him no no why is it that you
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did not tell him no or fight back because I didn't want to get hurt you finish your testimony and now it's
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time for the defense attorney to cross-examine you what happens so we're taking a break to then do
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cross-examination and Mr Marchesi stands up and gets the judge's attention Marchesi informed judge Christopher
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Sabella that he had just been fired his replacement to now cross-examine Alisa would be the man on trial for attempting
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to kill her Trevor Summers himself the man you believe kidnapped you and at least two occasions
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attempted to murder you is now going to do what stand in front of me and ask me questions that was his way to manipulate
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and to abuse her again to represent himself defense attorney Mark Casey was permitted to remain as standby Council
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but he was not permitted to speak with Trevor while Court was in session Elise is questioning by her ex-husband
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her alleged Tormentor went on for more than four hours much of it focused on the issue of consent did I
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threaten you or force you to have sex at times Alisa refused to look at Trevor focusing instead on the jury and objects
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in the courtroom I was in my head starting off him standing in front of me and questioning me about the things he
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did to me how was this how is this possible and then as it went on my confidence built you did tie me up
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you did attack me and you did break into my home when I was sleeping you raped me
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so you're calling it rape it is that is the definition of rape to come into someone's home and attack them and tie
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them up and then have sex with them that is the definition of rape that was the probably the most powerful incident
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situation in the entire trial Trevor also questioned some of his own children not shown on camera about the events
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that night Brynn 13 years old at the time of trial do you remember Miss Brandon um if I was yelling anything back at
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Mommy no and Arden 19 at the trial Arden did you ever see us physically fighting in the
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home when you came in not physically no Sergeant Edward remya was asked about that hospital interview he conducted
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with Trevor after he was treated for the self-inflicted knife wound Summers argued that despite seeming
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coherent and agreeing to be interviewed he was not in stable enough condition to
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have been questioned did you see me before the surgery I'm not aware that you had any surgery
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did you notice a large cut in stitches and bandages on my neck again I think we're probably gonna
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differ on our definition of getting stitches in surgery now the man that you interviewed
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is cross-examining you have had you ever had that happen in your career before I've never had that happen before never
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never it just poses you know a unique set of circumstances when he's interviewing his own children when he's
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interviewing his ex-wife what's his goal his last ditch effort to cause any you know mental anguish that he can possibly
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do or is it his last ditch attempt to show everybody that everything was okay that I was in control of the whole
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situation and that I'm not guilty of a crime [Music] after three days of testimony in Trevor
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Summers trial closing arguments began what this comes down to is a scorn lover the defendant was not
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willing to come to grips with his divorce Trevor had decided not to testify now his life was in his own hands as he
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would have to counter the prosecution's claims we spent a lot of time that weekend just talking just trying to
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figure things out I'm in a confused State of Mind we're going through a divorce we don't know what's going on
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Trevor tried to cast doubt that he was violent with Elisa in her home there was not broken glass or dancing walls
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there's not scratches on countertops or blood splatter and he questioned the legitimacy of that
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interview he gave to police at the hospital if you were in that position you would feel vulnerable and feel taken
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advantage of I was captive and possibly coerced Trevor also disputed elise's description
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of being tied up and held against her will at the Walgreens parking lot how do you get out of the car your hands
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tied behind your back in the prosecution's rebuttal Jennifer Johnson returned to the video Trevor had
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recorded I spent a lot of time with Mom last few hours and the thing that she's the things that
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she's told you about me being good at manipulation and control and lying is true
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tying her up that is Trevor summers in a nutshell manipulative lying controlling it was now up to the jury to
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decide Trevor Summer's fate and about five hours later they had the vert is read tell us what you heard
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and I was just guilty all the way across all 11 charges a guilty it's emotional by elise's side to
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support her was Jeff Mathewson who Melisa had met shortly before the 2017 attack I just had my hand on his
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shoulder and I was holding his hand throughout it all Jeff stood by Elisa and they stood up together getting
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married in 2018. I think Elisa knows as long as I'm around her she's safe and and I will protect her with my life and
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the kids another step toward protecting the family would come about a month after the verdict at sentencing
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during the 55 hour reveal Alisa spoke about the impact of Trevor's actions and did several of their
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children including Arden who had been manipulated by her father into letting him into the house that night for five
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and a half years I have struggled with what happened to my family especially for the part I took in it we asked Arden
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to read from her Victim Impact statement well no one else blamed me for what happened I did the guilt all misplaced
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has caused Arden profound pain I've had so many issues with trusting people after what happened and just the guilt
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that I lived with for so long before I finally told myself that this isn't my fault but most of my teenage years I
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spent just absolutely traumatized because of him Arden's trauma was not lost on the judge who addressed her
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directly as he prepared to give his sentence to Arden you should not feel guilty for anything
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that you did in this case I assure you of that judge sabella's address to Trevor Summers had quite a different
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tone the testimony and evidence that I heard clearly make you a monster in every
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stretch of the imagination Mr Trevor Summers will spend the rest of his life in Florida State Prison
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the judge sentenced him to three life sentences and Then followed by 224 years of prison and what a sentence
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I've never heard of a sentence of that length of you I have not my focus when that sentence came over were the kids
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and my focus was moving forward with them we got it the family once so broken is whole again
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the healing says Elisa is a process and ongoing we've already come so far Elisa now hopes to raise awareness of domestic
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abuse sharing her experience and Recovery with other victims full-time as an insurance agent
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what she does not do is dwell on Trevor Summers I've been dealing with him since I was
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19 years old that man means nothing to me and I'm moving forward with my life foreign
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we have the life more than I've ever envisioned us to have now we're on my road to kids happiness
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my healed family this is a happy ending this is a happy story here we go [Music]
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he wasn't there convicted of murder this man has spent 28 years in prison for a crime he did not commit and no judge has
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given me a chance to be heard a surprising twist can prosecutors finally win his freedom 48 hours Saturday on CBS
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